Motivational Quotes

Evil

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Evil

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Butterworth, Eric

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Buddha

The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Crowley, Aleister

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Phaedrus

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

Milton, John

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

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The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

Pascal, Blaise

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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Bellow, Saul

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Weil, Simone

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We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

Aristotle

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Hesiod

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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

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But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Mcgoohan, Patrick

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I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.

Masters, Brian

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

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All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-

Carlin, George

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

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So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

Eliot, T. S.

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The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Arendt, Hannah

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My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.

Martin, Tony

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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Raine, Kathleen

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If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Maistre, Joseph De

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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

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Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Leigh Hunt

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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Berger, John

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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca

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Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Gandhi, Mahatma